I screwed up the isomd5sum checksums in the 1.2.4 release while trying
to fix support for small isos. I've reverted the change and 1.2.4-2 is
building for rawhide and Fedora 40. Thanks to Jonathan Billings for the
bug report (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277398).
The bad version made it into Fedora 40 and Rawhide.
With the bad version it will implant a checksum that is too short by 3
characters, but checking it will pass if you use 1.2.4-1 -- but not if
you use any of the previous versions. You can check for the bad checksum
by running checkisomd5sum --verbose and look for ';FR' at the end of the
reported checksum.
Spot checking the Fedora 40 netinst and workstation isos I don't see the
bad checksums so it looks like the build system was using a previous
version of implantisomd5 for the released isos.
Currently in rawhide the isos have the bad checksums, so the builders
will need to be updated to isomd5sum-1.2.4-2 to fix this.
Nobody except Jonathan noticed because normally the same version making
the checksum is used to check it. He was using mkksiso to make a custom
iso which resulted in the new iso failing the test at boot time due to
the iso having 1.2.3-23 on it and his host having 1.2.4-1 on it.
Hopefully this doesn't cause too many problems for people,
Brian
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